Massacre at Mountain Meadows an American tragedy
Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormon settlers in isola...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY u.a.
Oxford Univ. Press
2008
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Utah / Social conditions / 19th century
> Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857
> Mormon Church / History / 19th century
> Pioneers / Arkansas / History / 19th century
> Pioneers / Utah / History / 19th century
> Immigrants / Arkansas / History / 19th century
> Immigrants / Utah / History / 19th century
> Migration, Internal / United States / History / 19th century
> Mountain-Meadows-Massaker
> Geschichte 1830-1877
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormon settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived an emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormons settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived an emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Maps printed on endpapers |
| Beschreibung: | XVI, 430 S. Ill., Kt. 24cm |
| ISBN: | 9780195160345 0195160347 |